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Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 19:21:24 +0200
From: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>
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Subject: Re: More policy changes from Debian
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Hi,

On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 04:18:18PM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote:
> # just for /etc/localtime symlink, but I mean... it's just etc_t
[...] =20
> +files_read_etc_files(sxid_t)

I'm pretty new to SELinux, so maybe I'm wrong, but isn't the general goal
of SELinux + refpolicy to implement the strictest possible ruleset
per default where-ever possible? If yes, I'd rather explicitly only
allow access to that single file, rather than all of /etc.


Uwe.
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